Collective agreements include, according to the Foundation, district-sponsored health plans for large medical, prescription, dental and, in most cases, life insurance. As a general rule, people who opt for a plan not funded by the counties receive a lump sum payment. Teachers have planned options across the country with a number of franchises and co-countries. The four-year extension of the collective agreement with the UCFEA will begin on July 1, 2019 and continue until June 30, 2023. The agreement provides for a 2.99 per cent increase in base salaries for the borough`s 338 employees. The payment of the additional contracts would increase by 1% per year, and the current hourly wage of $42 per hour would be maintained. In districts with pacts that require a contribution to bonuses, teachers pay according to the terms of thought in one of three different ways: a fixed annual contribution, a percentage of the cost of the bonus and a percentage of salary. Details are still being worked out, but an interim four-year contract extension agreement is being worked out between the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District and the Unionville Chadds Ford Education Association (UCFEA). The Board of Directors will vote on the agreement at its April 16 meeting. Employment contracts are generally negotiated behind closed doors, says the Foundation, which considers itself “the free market of Pennsylvania.” He has released an online employment contract database for each school district. The Unionville-Chadds School District teacher contract expired on June 30, 2010.

Discussions continued between the school board and the Unionville-Chadds Ford Education Association teachers` union. In late December, the Pennsylvania Council on Relations appointed lawyer Mariann E. Schick to resolve the conduct of the negotiations through a Fact Finder report. (This is a formal process in which a neutral arbitrator is appointed to review the negotiating positions of both parties and recommend provisions for a possible settlement. The process is non-binding and both parties can accept or reject the final report.) Combined with the cost of benefits, the total cost to the district will be $38,597,195 in 2018-19 and increased to $44,454,218 in 2022/23. Here`s a look at the four local school districts where teachers don`t contribute to their health premiums, followed by a full list of Philadelphia school districts and the four surrounding counties: . The results of the UCF District Investigation Report were released last week. The UCF school board voted unanimously to adopt the results of the report, while the teachers` union rejected the report. The report contains two important proposals. There is a provision for each union member, a one-time payment instead of an increase in the first year and an increase in the last two years of the contract, and second, the proposal for all union members to move to a new cost-effective health plan, Keystone Direct, in the second year of the contract. The review of employment contracts in each of the state`s 500 school districts shows that minimum health teacher contributions are everywhere. What do they say about writing on the wall? In the UCF School District, management and the union have been working for more than a year to secure a new contract without success.

Parents and students are frustrated because the gap between the two parties has not changed dramatically since the discussions began. The UCF school authority maintains that its proposals are aimed at obtaining quality health care at a reduced rate and compensation for their teachers.